Global Dungeon: I Can See the Status Bar

”Godslayer? No... That’s impossible, absolutely impossible!”

The True Monarch of Destiny was utterly shocked, even his flowing white beard trembled.

”Wasn’t she already suppressed and eliminated by the Divine Realm? How could she still be alive? There must be something wrong, something must have gone wrong somewhere...”

”Old man, what exactly is this Godslayer?”

Seeing the True Monarch of Destiny suddenly somewhat panicked, turning in place, Lu Wenwu straightforwardly asked.

Not knowing something, just ask; this has always been Lu Wenwu’s way of doing things.

Not to mention friends, even encountering something unknown, regardless if the person is an enemy, he would still ask.

”Hey, old man? Old man?”

Lu Wenwu waved his hand in front of the True Monarch of Destiny’s eyes, he finally snapped out of his trance, his eyes regaining some clear brightness.

”Wait, hold on a moment.”

The True Monarch of Destiny slapped away Lu Wenwu’s waving hand, immediately performing a ritual to report the information he received to the Celestial Emperor.

Only after completing all this did he finally let out a sigh of relief.

”You truly don’t know the Godslayer? You are from the early Human Era!” The True Monarch of Destiny looked doubtful, ”You can even sense the world-ending catastrophe, how could you not know such a famous person? Although theoretically speaking, lower realm cultivators indeed should not know, even I only found out after my ascension.”

”I’m always honest, always spoken the truth. Sometimes, when I speak the truth and you don’t believe it; what can I do?” Lu Wenwu shrugged, ”Moreover, let me reiterate once again; I am not a Pathfinder.”

”Forget it, suit yourself.”

The True Monarch of Destiny didn’t further elaborate on this aspect, directly explaining the Godslayer.

”The Godslayer is a peerless Great Demon who became infamous around eight thousand years ago, with cultivation comparable to Immortal Gods, terrifying to the extreme.”

”During that era, ascending Immortal Gods weren’t as numerous as today, but there was already a certain number, forming the embryonic powers of the current two major Upper Realm forces in the East and West.”

”However, it was merely an embryonic stage; various heavenly rules were not perfected yet, even the Divine Realm and Immortal Realm were still under development. Hence, Immortal Gods would often exploit various loopholes to secretly descend, appearing in the Cultivator Realm.”

”Why the Cultivator Realm?” Lu Wenwu asked, ”Wouldn’t it be better for them to seek believers among mortals?”

”To the Immortal Gods, being in the Cultivator Realm allows them to resonate with the Dao at Near God cultivation level, not much weaker than being in the Upper Realm.” The True Monarch of Destiny explained, ”Actually, the essential nature of the Cultivator Realm and the Upper Realm is the same, only missing certain corresponding ’elements’.”

”Missing ’elements’?” Lu Wenwu slightly frowned.

”Yes.”

The True Monarch of Destiny didn’t directly answer the question but shifted and asked, ”Do you know what the Cultivator Realm was before it became the Cultivator Realm?”

”No idea.” Lu Wenwu shook his head.

The True Monarch of Destiny said solemnly, ”Before becoming the Cultivator Realm, they were one Little World after another opened up by Ancient Immortal Gods, also the headquarters of Ancient Immortal Gods. Or rather... Divine Country! Immortal Country! The mortals mostly lived there.”

”Until the first twilight of the gods appeared, all the Ancient Immortal Gods vanished completely, the core elements left by the Ancient Immortal Gods in the Cultivator Realm changed under the power of the Heavenly Dao, combining together.”

”What emerged from combination is now the Upper Realm.” Lu Wenwu immediately inferred.

The True Monarch of Destiny nodded slightly, ”Yes, this is the truth of the Upper Realm and the Cultivator Realm. In the earliest Mythical Era, there wasn’t anything like the Cultivator Realm. The Human Realm nowadays during that time was called the Immortal God Battlefield, a place where Immortal Gods and their believers fought and battled.”

”You should know, the Mythical Era is called the Mythical Era because Immortal Gods were the absolute rulers of that time. Everything humans had at that time originated from the Immortal Gods’ gifts, including written culture, technological creations, cultivation system, bottleneck advancement, and even cultivation enhancement.”

”Only when all the Ancient Immortal Gods vanished entirely, and the world environment dramatically changed, did we humans finally continue progressing under some ’rebellious’ ancestors, until exploring to the present state.”

”And those rebellious ancestors are precisely the Pathfinders.”

Lu Wenwu was deep in thought.

Having come to this world for three months, until today, he finally pieced together this ancient history, restoring the truth of the past.

The mortal written records don’t have detailed ’mythical’ parts, only telling how those mighty Pathfinder ancestors recreated the machines once bestowed by the Immortal Gods through exploration.

But the mortal libraries didn’t write about how, under what challenging conditions, those Pathfinders reopened the path of cultivation.

The mortal libraries didn’t record, until the first Ascender appeared between heaven and earth, human technology slowly began to rise, trending upwards with breakthroughs.

Until the number of Ascenders surpassed the original Ancient Immortal Gods’ count, mortals finally experienced a technological explosion, completing in an incredibly short time what should take hundreds or thousands of years to achieve.

These things could only be recorded by Immortal Gods with Longevity and Vision, watching the vicissitudes of heaven and sea change.

Listening to the True Monarch of Destiny’s narration, Lu Wenwu suddenly realized a point.

This world didn’t change due to human alterations.

But rather, because the number of Immortal Gods changed, triggering self-change.